Improvement in shoe-fastenings



l. BANISTER.) Shoe-Fastpnings.

N0. 138,117. v Patented April 22, 1873.

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UNITED STATES PATENT GEEIoE ISAAC BANISTER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHO-FASTENINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 138,117, dated April 22, 1873; application filed February 27, 1873.

` lowing is a specification:

The invention relates to means and manner of holding to the foot with comfort shoes of any cut or material, whether for under or over Wear, as the case may be 5 and it consists in a side fastening holding a slide in the position ordinarily occupied by buckles by a strap turning over when passed through the slide, and being fastened to the side of the shoe at or near the end of the strap, dispensing with buckles and lacings.

The drawing shows the fastening to a shoe operating on the back, Figure 1; also a shoe, Fig. 2, that requires it to hold by passing over its front. Fig. 3 is the open-end link or hook attached to the end of a fastening-strap; and Fig. 4 is a slide intended for the front, one for the back needing only a plain curved link.

On the side of the upper, as at a, receivers or pockets for reception and retention of one side of the open-end link or hook, Fig. 3, being as close together as possible convenient for adjustment of the desired closeness ofthe fitting of the shoe, by the introduction of the hook into the pocket that will produce the desired result. The slide 4 is calculated to occupy the position, front or rear at the middle, where buckles are ordinarily placed, the slides admitting more orless ornamentation at choice Witnesses:

W. M. GooDrNe, EDWARD CoLLvER. 

